Deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a newly-identified species of the parasitoid wasp genus Zatypota transforms Anelosimus eximius, one of only about 25 species...
An international team of entomologists has found that numerous termite mounds in Brazil are between 690 to 3,820 years old.
The termite mounds are found...
A beautiful new species of swallowtail butterfly has been discovered on the Pacific Island of Vanua Levu, Fiji.
The Natewa swallowtail (Papilio natewa)....
The emerald jewel wasp (Ampulex compressa) is renowned for its ability to zombify the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) with a sting to the brain....
The total solar eclipse of 21 August 2017 traversed 5,000 km from coast to coast of North America. In its 90-min span, sunlight dropped by three orders...
Colonies of the red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) forage in the desert for seeds that provide both food and water. Foragers lose water while out...
Praying mantises are carnivorous insects with powerful raptorial front legs. Their diet includes insects, lizards, frogs, newts, mice, small birds, snakes...
A team of researchers from the Universities of Queensland and Sydney, Australia, has performed the first comprehensive characterization of a polypeptidic...
A research team led by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology scientist Thomas van de Kamp has found ancient parasitoid wasps lurking inside 55 mineralized...
A team of researchers at the University of Exeter has confirmed the classic textbook example of evolution in action — a phenomenon called industrial...
Humans have a remarkable ability to detect and visually identify conspecifics on the basis of their faces, which is a crucial capacity in social interactions....
A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports shows that consuming edible crickets can help support the growth of the probiotic bacterium Bifidobacterium...
All ants are thought to be eusocial insects, with most individual ants within a colony foregoing their own reproductive potential to support an egg-laying...
A team of neuroscientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus has taken detailed pictures of the whole brain of an adult female...
World’s insectivorous birds eat 400 to 500 million metric tons of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and other arthropods per...
A team of scientists has identified 27 new viruses that infect European honeybees (Apis mellifera) and other bee species.
Galbraith et al identified 27...
A bizarre new species of wasp, named Dolichogenidea xenomorph, has been discovered in Australia.
Dolichogenidea xenomorph. Image credit: Erinn Fagan-Jeffries.
Dolichogenidea...
Like many migrating birds, numerous species of nocturnal moths undertake long-distance migrations at night. Each spring, billions of Bogong moths (Agrotis...
A team of scientists from Oregon State University and the University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, has learned that blue fluorescent light in the 430- to 480-nm...
